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Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

There's no way that guy was like, I'm going to start this because there's a number attached to it. So money comes naturally as a result of service is from Henry Ford. Okay. Henry Ford's autobiography, I think is like a mandatory, like, I think entrepreneurs should read it over and over again, you know, every two or three years.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

There's no way that guy was like, I'm going to start this because there's a number attached to it. So money comes naturally as a result of service is from Henry Ford. Okay. Henry Ford's autobiography, I think is like a mandatory, like, I think entrepreneurs should read it over and over again, you know, every two or three years.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

And he, Henry Ford, in 1919, he owned 100% of Ford Motor Company because he bought out all his investors. And he was arguably the richest person in America at the time. So it's like, it's like me and you owning like a $20 billion company with no outside shareholders today. Like just insane, right? Yeah. And yet you go and you analyze the life of Henry Ford, and he's the one that said that.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

And he, Henry Ford, in 1919, he owned 100% of Ford Motor Company because he bought out all his investors. And he was arguably the richest person in America at the time. So it's like, it's like me and you owning like a $20 billion company with no outside shareholders today. Like just insane, right? Yeah. And yet you go and you analyze the life of Henry Ford, and he's the one that said that.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

And he, Henry Ford, in 1919, he owned 100% of Ford Motor Company because he bought out all his investors. And he was arguably the richest person in America at the time. So it's like, it's like me and you owning like a $20 billion company with no outside shareholders today. Like just insane, right? Yeah. And yet you go and you analyze the life of Henry Ford, and he's the one that said that.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

He had one single idea. He's like, it's kind of messed up that cars are only for the rich people. At the time, they were hand-making them. Most of the cars on the road are either electric or steam. He obviously popularized the internal combustion engine. Let me take a tangent. There's a funny story. I'm rereading Rockefeller's autobiography that he wrote when he was in his 80s a few months ago.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

He had one single idea. He's like, it's kind of messed up that cars are only for the rich people. At the time, they were hand-making them. Most of the cars on the road are either electric or steam. He obviously popularized the internal combustion engine. Let me take a tangent. There's a funny story. I'm rereading Rockefeller's autobiography that he wrote when he was in his 80s a few months ago.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

He had one single idea. He's like, it's kind of messed up that cars are only for the rich people. At the time, they were hand-making them. Most of the cars on the road are either electric or steam. He obviously popularized the internal combustion engine. Let me take a tangent. There's a funny story. I'm rereading Rockefeller's autobiography that he wrote when he was in his 80s a few months ago.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

And there's a line in there where he's like, young Henry Ford came to visit to me today. I love that guy. And I'm like, yeah. He made like the demand for the product you have a monopoly on, like orders of magnitude. Yeah. Yeah. I bet you probably give him a hug and a kiss when you see him. Like, of course you love him. But, but Henry, what I love about Henry Ford, and I love this about everything.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

And there's a line in there where he's like, young Henry Ford came to visit to me today. I love that guy. And I'm like, yeah. He made like the demand for the product you have a monopoly on, like orders of magnitude. Yeah. Yeah. I bet you probably give him a hug and a kiss when you see him. Like, of course you love him. But, but Henry, what I love about Henry Ford, and I love this about everything.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

And there's a line in there where he's like, young Henry Ford came to visit to me today. I love that guy. And I'm like, yeah. He made like the demand for the product you have a monopoly on, like orders of magnitude. Yeah. Yeah. I bet you probably give him a hug and a kiss when you see him. Like, of course you love him. But, but Henry, what I love about Henry Ford, and I love this about everything.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

It's like, you only need one idea. You only have to be right one time. Henry Ford had a single idea in his entire career. One idea. everybody should be able to afford a car. We can't do that right now because at the time car, let's say cars were like $6,000 and the average person made, you know, two bucks a day, a dollar a day. It is not going to happen.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

It's like, you only need one idea. You only have to be right one time. Henry Ford had a single idea in his entire career. One idea. everybody should be able to afford a car. We can't do that right now because at the time car, let's say cars were like $6,000 and the average person made, you know, two bucks a day, a dollar a day. It is not going to happen.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

It's like, you only need one idea. You only have to be right one time. Henry Ford had a single idea in his entire career. One idea. everybody should be able to afford a car. We can't do that right now because at the time car, let's say cars were like $6,000 and the average person made, you know, two bucks a day, a dollar a day. It is not going to happen.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

And so it took him when you read biographies about him and his studies career, it took him like a decade and a half, two decades to finally figure out mass production. So you can drop the price of the car. Right. And so how did he become the wealthiest person in America at the time that he was alive? Money comes naturally as a result of service.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

And so it took him when you read biographies about him and his studies career, it took him like a decade and a half, two decades to finally figure out mass production. So you can drop the price of the car. Right. And so how did he become the wealthiest person in America at the time that he was alive? Money comes naturally as a result of service.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

And so it took him when you read biographies about him and his studies career, it took him like a decade and a half, two decades to finally figure out mass production. So you can drop the price of the car. Right. And so how did he become the wealthiest person in America at the time that he was alive? Money comes naturally as a result of service.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

He, the service he provided was he made the car affordable. So everybody, and I literally think about like, there's a lot of great products. There's not many products you can make that change the geography. Like that's how influential this guy was.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

He, the service he provided was he made the car affordable. So everybody, and I literally think about like, there's a lot of great products. There's not many products you can make that change the geography. Like that's how influential this guy was.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

He, the service he provided was he made the car affordable. So everybody, and I literally think about like, there's a lot of great products. There's not many products you can make that change the geography. Like that's how influential this guy was.